Gary Droller person
also: Frank Bender, Droller, Droehler, Jerry Doehler
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▶ 7:13
It so happened, however, that the CIA's WH-4 unit that was overseeing the preparation for the Bay of Pigs, political action chiefs, held opposing views. For Project AET and Pluto, both simultaneously going on, Howard Hunt wanted no M-26 peo…
▶ 7:47
Because they had originally supported Castro. Okay. Gary Droller, D-R-O-L-L-E-R, on the other hand, did not much care what philosophical beliefs the people had. He wanted boots on the ground. There was a continued friction between the two o…
▶ 8:17
be operators. They also didn't personally get along very well. You know, that's the best thing you want to do when you're putting a team together, have people that don't get along. Droehler held the title as the WH-4 political action chief,…
▶ 8:48
in Lansdale's Philippine project as well. In other words, E. Howard Hunt had been around for a long time. He had already established his bona fides. Droehler got a leg up when Hunt visited Mexico City to meet with the FRD there and lost a b…
▶ 11:20
Hunt and Droehler were something else. Howard Hunt had entered on duty at CIA in 1949, just a month after Reynolds. The senior of the two political officers at the Miami base, Hunt held the reins. Jerry Doehler worked out of Washington. He …
▶ 11:50
and posed as a steel tycoon when he visited Miami. Droehler's crude behavior in plantation master style, with his accent and specialty in European operations, gave Hunt excuses to put Droehler on a tight leash. That applied especially after…
▶ 12:19
held a meeting in a hotel room and was so boisterous that the next door neighbor, a stenographer whose brother worked for the FBI, wrote notes down of every single thing he said. The FBI then asked the CIA about what they were plotting. Mea…
▶ 12:55
many of the Cubans. Hunt cut off others' access to him. All this did not add up to a happy camping group. Esterling favored Droller, whom he considered much more reliable than Hunt, but Droller was his own worst enemy. Critics of the Cuban …
▶ 20:22
Written on November 19, 1960. OPSEC blown. The Miami base had other problems too. Bob Reynolds received his basic instructions in early October. Supposed to personally supervise any project activity in the area and draw on any CIA facility …
▶ 26:16
careers appeared unaffected, but in the long run, sputtered out. Gar Thorsrug shifted to one of the proprietaries and worked out of a disguised CIA airbase in Marana, Arizona. Isn't that where Evergreen is? I'm pretty sure it is. He retired…